Royalty
Astronomy
American History
Sports
Medicine
400

What breed of dog is commonly associated with Queen Elizabeth II?

Corgis

400

Astronomical distances are often described in what timely measurement, with one unit roughly equivalent to 5.88 trillion miles?

Light Year

400

Due to his status as the President of the Continental Congress, John Hancock's signature was the only one not grouped by state on which document?

The Declaration of Independence

400

On the 2022 Forbes list of highest paid athletes, two of the top five are basketball players (LeBron James #2 and Steph Curry #5). The other three athletes in the top five all play the same sport. What sport?

Soccer

400

Statins are medications given to patients who have high levels of lipids in their blood, otherwise known by what "good or bad" C-name?

Cholesterol

800

During what event does the monarch visit Edinburgh every year?

Holyrood Week

800

*DAILY DOUBLE* If you were to create a list with 88 entries in alphabetical order that started with Andromeda and ended with Vulpecula, what would you be listing?

Constellations

800

The North Star was a 19th-century anti-slavery newspaper founded by what famous abolitionist and formerly enslaved Black American?

Frederick Douglass

800

Turkish-born athlete and activist Enes Kanter legally changed his name to Enes Kanter Freedom in 2021 to celebrate his American citizenship. Freedom has played what sport for Türkiye’s Fenerbahçe sports club, as well as the Jazz, Knicks, and Thunder?

Basketball

800

Wilma Rudolph was an American medalist in Track and Field at the 1956 and 1960 Olympics, an especially impressive feat considering her childhood was plagued by infantile paralysis caused by what virus?

Polio

1200

What was the first Prime Minister to be born during the Queen's reign?

Tony Blair

1200

On July 5, the Earth will be the farthest from the Sun that it will be for all of 2022—that’s 94,510,886 miles, to be exact. What astronomy term is used to describe this phenomenon?

Aphelion

1200

*DAILY DOUBLE* What Boston-based battle of the American Revolutionary War is somewhat inaccurately named, since most of the fighting took place on Breed's Hill?

Battle of Bunker Hill

1200

As part of an effort to break into the Indian market, Nike released the Air Zoom Yorker to target players of what sport?

Cricket

1200

The varicella-zoster virus causes skin outbreaks in children, and in 1995 the FDA approved a vaccine to prevents its infection. What's the common name for the disease this virus causes?

Chicken Pox

1600

How did Prince William and Kate Middleton meet?

At university

1600

Named for a professor of mathematics and astronomy at the Ohio Wesleyan University, what structure in Delaware, OH was completed in 1931 and included the 3rd largest mirror in the world?

Perkins Observatory

1600

Which U.S. president spent the longest time in office? This man served in the office until his death at age 63.

FDR

1600

Late superstar Pele has been credited with popularizing the phrase "The ____ Game" in connection with soccer. What word fills in the blank in this phrase?

Beautiful

1600

His name lives on in the form of an oath of ethics taken by medical practitioners. Which ancient Greek physician is known as the "Father of Medicine"?

Hippocrates

2000

Which English King had the longest reign?

George III

2000

The third-oldest astronomical clock in the world was first installed in 1410 in what city in the heart of Europe?

Prague

2000

In a 1776 letter, what future First Lady of the United States urged her husband, John, to "remember the ladies" when fighting for American independence from Britain? First and last names, please.

Abigail Adams

2000

Rosie Ruiz rose to fame in 1980 after she finished a running race in a record time of two hours and 31 minutes. However, the fame was mostly infamy as her title was stripped because of her lack of sweating, exhaustion, or knowledge of the course led to the natural conclusion that she had cheated. What was the race?

Boston Marathon

2000

Azoles, like clotrimazole, ketoconazole, and voriconazoles, are compounds typically medicinally used to combat what general type of infection?

Fungi